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“Its (Rasayan’s) principles (certain operations, drugs and compound medicines, most of which are taken from plants) restore the health… and give back youth to fading old age… white hair becomes black again, the keenness of the senses is restored as well as the capacity for juvenile agility, and even for co-habitation, and the life of the people in this world is even extended to a long period.”

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The Hindus believe that there is no country but theirs. no nation like theirs, no king like theirs, no religion like theirs, no science like theirs.

They [Hindus] totally differ from us in religion, as we believe in nothing in which they believe, and vice versa.

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The repugnance of the Hindus against foreigners increased more and more when the Muslims began to make their inroads into their country.

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